“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks.
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@breathOfLife @chris That's all fair, but I was speaking less about specifics of their education/background than their approach to business. Just based on this article, Wang appears to be a move-fast-and-break-things disrupter.
@zazzoo @breathOfLife @chris where do you get that? He seems incredibly methodical, and incredibly patient. There’s none of zuckerberg’s get rich quick shit going on.
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“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”
Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.
This is the future.
China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli@chris wow. This is exciting.
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@vxo i can only speculate that it is a supply chain issue
Like the financialization of slavery, as described in Banking on Slavery by Sharon Ann Murphy, the fossil fuel industry's finances & politics are as deeply entrenched.
We still live with the legacy of slavery on behalf of the Epstein Class nearly 200 years later.
Disentangling the fossil fuel industry is equally daunting.
The oil industry amplifies each difficulty of the EV industry & is relentless in its payoffs to political parties & business leadership.
Malign influence.
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@vxo i can only speculate that it is a supply chain issue
One of the issues is new technology.
Solid-state batteries is one tantalizing edge. Another is a substantial change away from silicon.
And many of the break-throughs are patented by fossil fuel industry. And no, they are not letting anyone develop them.
So the current bleading edge is literally patenting ways to work around the newly claimed patents.
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@zazzoo totally agree. That is why we have to lean in as Canadians. The fact is China is the leader and we must learn from a tech and manufacturing perspective, but we also must find ways to influence and impact that country so that the conditions of all workers, not just those in these high tech spaces, are safe and treated as workers should be treated.
Too long we have been using China as our cheap work shop and hypocritically lambasting them for the way they treat workers and claiming they produce “cheap stuff”. Yet here we are buying it for 40 years.
We need to turn that on its head, grow up, and work *with* them. Form real partnerships that can then demand and improve the working conditions and human rights.
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“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”
Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.
This is the future.
China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli@chris wouldnt work. The entire point of the tariffs is to courage them to make the batteries here. Why would they build them here if it can be built in china and transported here?
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@chris wouldnt work. The entire point of the tariffs is to courage them to make the batteries here. Why would they build them here if it can be built in china and transported here?
@idiot300 same reason Japanese makers build cars in North America. Once the supply chains are in place, it's cheaper to manufacture closer to the end point of sale.
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“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”
Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.
This is the future.
China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli@chris This article re: BYD was fascinating (except for the zero work-life balance score)! It pairs very well with @Markham's discussion re: Alberta, and parochial blinders to energy (bitumen/oil) as technology, not commodity:
https://youtu.be/VNIzJI7ST24 -
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